Hey artcys,

I’m doing this blog post to inform you about an event I attended. The event was called, yes you guessed it, “Poetry in the Multilingual Classroom”!
This event was a teacher CPD event that was running for 3 hours on Thursday evening. Me and two other people from my group attended. I personally found the event and the experience really rewarding and engaging. Besides being among the only younger ones that attended, it was nice to be in a room with people who have more experience than you do because you can get ideas and learn from them.
The evening started with a general lecture informing us about poetry in the classroom and the relation between poetry and languages. Later we there were option seminars which we could choose to which we want to go. I personally went to the one about the event of Mushaira, an event that happens once a year and if you follow my blog you will see that in the future I actually had the pleasure to attend this year’s event.

The event of Multi-language Mushaira celebrates poetry in relation to food and different languages. It is an interactive poetry performance event that was traditionally happening in Urdu and other South Asian languages. The event is open to poets who are interested in sharing their poetry around the theme of food, however, they can do it in any language.

During the seminar, we had the opportunity to experience some activities that happen during that day, such as paper plate poetry. Where we wrote poems on paper plates and then they were attached together to create a cloud. It was an exciting seminar that left me inspired to apply the activities I learned and similar ones in the future, in some workshop or school, wherever I had the opportunity to do so.

See you in the next one,
Antio!

ps. Find attached a  close up picture of the paper cloud we created during the seminar.